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Ellen Gates D'Oench

Ellen Gates D'Oench (2 October 1930 – 22 May 2009),[1] known as "Puffin", was Curator Emerita of the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.[2] A Wesleyan graduate magna cum laude, she curated the Davison Art Center from 1979 until 1998.

Biography

Ellen Gates D'Oench was born 2 October 1930. D'Oench became an expert on the art of Arthur Devis on whom she completed her PhD dissertation at Yale University under the title "Arthur Devis: Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece". In 2011, an exhibition was held at the Davison Art Center titled "Collecting Photographs: Ellen G. D’Oench and the Growth of the Collection".[3] She also wrote about and catalogued the work of Robert F. Sheehan's color photography.[4]

She was the daughter of Elenita Crenshaw Gates, who married John Montheith Gates, and second husband Arthur Houghton. Both husbands were involved with Steuben Glassworks NYC. She married Russell Grace ( Derry ) D'Oench a great great grandson of W.R. Grace, who had the Grace shipping lines in NYC. Her oldest son Peter Gilchrist D'Oench, who she graduated Wesleyan with, became a TV news reporter in Miami and married an Oppenheimer.[5] She was survive by sons Peter, wife Connie 3 daughters, 2 grand daughters, and Russell Grace ( Toby ) D'Oench, wife Tani Takagi, granddaughter and grand son, and daughter Ellen D'Oench ( Dodie ) Ruimerman, previously a daughter Jennifer, who died at a young age.

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